Black-and-white - life is beautiful (Translation)

36. It does not scare anymore

Albus was not in a good mood, the day had started so well. He had a rich and healthy breakfast, had morning sports, first outside the bed and then inside, and then he wanted to go to his godchild. unfortunately, it did not come out, instead he got a letter from the Ministry asking him to come to the Department of Mysteries. So, without him, Nicolas went to see Raven and the other ranchers, and he had to go to the supposed center of power. Life was so damned unfair at times, the headmaster thought.

He stood grudgingly at the reception and checked his wand.
"Good morning, director. Hogwarts is good news. "
"Good Morning. What exactly are you talking about? "Albus asked.
"Well, from Minister Blacks and Professor Lupine's kids," the young woman retorted.
"Oh yes, that's really good news," the old man began to rave about.
"See you. I hope the mother is fine, although of course I know that Remus Lupine is a man, but he gave birth to the children. I hope you forgive me the little faux pas? "
"I can reassure you, we call everyone, Remus, mother, and he does not mind. as long as we all realize that he is not really a woman. "
The young lady gave an indignant laugh.
"Well that would be even nicer, of course he is therefore no less a man. I do not want to stop you any longer, you have to think I'm a terrible gossip. As I said, I just wanted to make my congratulations and inquire about the well-being of the parents. "
"I'll pass on the congratulations," Albus promised and continued on his way.

Of course, he first looked past Arthur Weasley, and finally his office was on his way. There, however, it was just over and over.
"What's going on here? please tell me that there was no attack on Muggles. "
Arthur met the Headmaster smilingly.
"Good morning, Albus. I can reassure you, nothing like that. However, some wizards seem to have overestimated. "
"That means?"
"Too much alcohol and too many stupid ideas. And no, not from young people. Now we have to restore an entire park to its original state. Some flowers are just floating there and the trees seem to have an allergy to people who sneeze, all that is missing is that they ask for a handkerchief. And as if that was not enough, this wet-happy troupe then Apparated even in the vicinity of a farm and colored the cows, also made sure that the chickens sing jazz and the pigs fly. especially the last point I find a cheap stereotype that deserves a punishment just by his unimaginative. "
"I see you're busy," Albus grinned.
"Can you say that? I think it's nice that people are not afraid anymore, but they really exaggerate, "the younger magician said.
"The war made sure that many people could never develop, now they are allowed to. And they take advantage of this opportunity. "
"But why always the non-mages?" Arthur moaned.
"So you have work. No, joking aside, I think such incidents are everywhere, but of course we are not so upset in the magical world. And see it from the good side, no people are bewitched. So our society seems to have learned. "
"Say that to the poor animals, I'm sure they would say something completely different," smiled the red-haired wizard.
"Again true. Well, maybe a special holiday should be introduced where all sorcerers can beat the strings. That would perhaps stem their energy. Of course everything in the legal area. "
"That could even work, but only if you use spells that make it impossible for the non-magicians to notice. Because delete from large-scale memory I think nothing. "
"I agree with you, it can go very wrong."
"In any case, such a day would make my job a lot easier. Since the war ended, every opportunity has been used to make such a joke. and now that many people finally have the luck to have their own family, thank the health examinations, people turn even more through. Yesterday, we had to stop a nobleman known to be very conservative from turning Big Ben into a big phallus. "
"What does holding off here mean? Undoing we had to do the magic, and even before the first passers-by saw it! ", Shouted a coworker from the side.

Albus tried hard, but he just could not suppress a grin.
"You're laughing, but try to convince a man who had finished his family planning not to announce to the whole city that he is the King. besides, he absolutely had to hear anyone who wanted to hear it or not, what a great Stecher he is. Are all men so childish when it comes to witnessing the offspring? "
"Miriam you can not see that so closely, he's just happy. For twenty years he and his wife are already trying to have children, but it never worked. And then, from one day to the next, he is told that it is possible. For the two, a dream comes true. "
"Was that why you were so calm when the lady decorated your entire office with pacifiers and rompers?" Miriam demanded provocatively.
Arthur cleared his throat in embarrassment.
"Only when the good lady has turned my chair into a stroller, I could not help but to get out of the skin. Finally, I was sitting on it. But not even that spoiled her good mood. Luckily, otherwise her husband would have challenged me to a duel. "
In the meantime albus had to sit down otherwise he would have turned over with laughter.
"And all this happened in just one day?" He made sure.
"Oh, yes," came it from all employees.
"Albus, let me tell you, the whole country is turning more and more. That can not just be the end of the war. Are you sure that we are not dealing with anything else? "
"No, I do not think so, people fell as Tom for the first time, but celebrated the euphoria very quickly. deep inside, the population knew that the danger was not over, everyone felt it. Or what do you think why no one ever dared to pronounce his pseudonym? Our instincts were not easily duped. "
"And you think that now that everyone knows it's all over, that all of this tension has died down?" Ernie MacMillan asked.